On a cold afternoon in December 1995, two young girls are found abandoned on a platform at Pearse Station in Dublin.

Thirty years later, investigative journalist Vega is determined to find out what happened to the so-called ‘Nowhere Girls’. Where did their mother go? Why did no one come forward to claim them? And where are they now?

Searching for answers takes her on a journey with twists she never could have imagined. And one that could put everything else she knows at risk; including her new relationship, her career, and her life as she knows it. 

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‘A delightfully twisty mystery’ ANDREA MARA

‘Poignant, twisty and so compelling, I couldn’t put The Nowhere Girls down’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS

‘This high stakes search for the truth has some shocking twists and turns’ GILLY MACMILLAN

My Review

This was nothing like I imagined. I didn’t expect all the twists that just kept coming. But initially, I had no idea what was going on. It’s 2015 and thirty-four-year-old Vega is a journalist who has just been recommended for an award for an article she has written about three children who were abandoned some years earlier. She is in a relationship with Luka, but she struggles with closeness. Then suddenly she asks him to travel with her to New England and they end up on a farm where maple syrup is made.

In the meantime, in 1995, two little girls aged four and three were abandoned at Pearse Railway Station in Dublin. They had been told to wait there for their mother who would be back very soon, only she never arrived. All they know about themselves is their names, their ages and that they live in the ‘middle of nowhere’. They became known as ‘The Nowhere Girls’. They were taken into care – one would be adopted, the other would not.

Vega wants to write about them as a follow up to her award-winning article. Finding them becomes an obsession, but why is it so important to her?

Luka is amazing, always there to support her and help in any way he can. Vega has no family and her only friend as such is her boss Kieran at the newspaper, though Luka informs her that a boss is not the same as a friend.

I really resonated with Vega, and totally understood why she did what she did at times, even if it wasn’t right. In her situation I would probably have done the same. But you’ll have to read the book to understand what I mean. And it’s worth it, trust me.

Many thanks to @annecater for inviting me to be part of #RandomThingsTours

About the Author

Carmel Harrington is a No. 1 bestselling and award-winning author from Ireland. Her novels are published internationally and have been Irish Times, USA Today and Kindle bestsellers.

Her most recent novel, The Stolen Child, was an Irish Times No. 1 bestseller, a Good Housekeeping Good Books winner, and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year. It was also a Sunday Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick. Carmel’s next book, The Last Bench, has been chosen by the Reading Agency as one of their Quick Reads for April 2026.

Carmel is a regular on Irish television and radio, has been a guest speaker at literary events in Ireland, the UK and the USA, and served as Chair of the Wexford Literary Festival for three years. She lives in Wexford with her husband, children and rescue dog George Bailey.